Independent Labour Party

The most significant government policy since 1988 that can be argued to have increased inequality in education is the 1988 Education Reform Act. This was the most influential New Right market led approach that led to greater inequalities in education as the key elements of this act consisted of marketisation of schools, testing, National Curriculum and reduction of local authority control. For Marxists, this act reinforced class differences as Middle class parents were able to use cultural…

College is one of the most important decisions in anyone's life and there are just too many factors to consider while trying to find a college that best fits you. For this compare and contrast essay I have decided to break each of my six colleges down into six criteria These criteria will help me decide which college would be the best fit for me. The colleges I have chosen are as follows: The University of South Carolina (USC), The University of Clemson, The University of Alabama, The University…

Independent contractors are self-employed workers engaged by a principal to perform specific task. According to the general rule “an individual is an independent contractor if his or her employer has the right to control the results of the work but not the means and methods of accomplishing it”. (Megerdomian, n.d.) Consultants, freelancers, entrepreneurs and business owners are other terms that could be used to describe an independent contractor. Independent contractors and employees are two…

AltSchool, seems like the utopia of education with no standardized testing, little homework, curriculum picked by the students, and small class sizes allowing for personal attention from teachers. However, with current systems for education in the United States, it is impossible for the model to be implement on a large scale. While the school says that economic background is of no matter but rather merit is the determining factor for their students, with scholarships available to students, it…

My education experience My education experience has been kind of like a roller-coaster. I went to public school majority of my life but I was privately schooled from sixth grade to my freshman year and the transformation from private to public was so different. In my private school there were only like twenty to twenty-five kids in all and we all knew each other so I would get in trouble a lot for talking and was even moved around because that’s all I would do, but we had to learn to be able…

The image chosen portrays to the reader that when children graduate from the public school system they are only qualified to take tests, more specifically speaking, standardized tests. In the image there are two men; one sitting behind a big desk reading a piece of paper and one on the other side sitting in a small chair with a huge pencil in his hand. Mike Keefe 2002, in the image the man behind the desk holding the piece of paper says to the skinny man sitting in the chair on the other side of…

In the mid 1800s, the desire for public education began to strive, as many American children were not given the oppurtunity to attend public school and learn vital information that would be crucial to their adulthood. Horace Mann, also known as “the father of American public schools,” led this movement for public education. Mann was born in 1796 and grew up with his poor family in Franklin, Massachusettes. Throughout his childhood, Mann would go to the Franklin public library, with the few…

students are given less priority of choice but parents enter students into schools regarding their beliefs on effective schooling. Moreover, 22 out of 49 private school children have a no choice in school attendance, 4 out of 7 of our surveyees of independent schools have no choice in the matter for schooling and 24 out of 100 public school students also have no choice in their education. This suggests that only a small minority of public school students have no choice in their schooling, as…

Administrative Interview of Mark Hageman Mark Hageman is new to Concord Christian School. He has been hired as the CCS high school principal in the summer of 2015. Coming form a public school in Texas, Mr. Hageman’s main priority this year is to establish an anti-bullying policy. The principal mentions that even though there is no serious bullying present at CCS, he would like to create a set of regulations and procedures so that the students will feel comfortable to address bullying or…

Growing up a Caucasian, upper middle-class child in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I remember experiencing a sense of perplexity every time I visited my neighborhood grocery store. While one side of the store served a demographic population similar to my own, the other side catered to the low-income, predominately African American population located in the adjacent neighborhood. My grocery store represented the diversity of my city, causing me to question why such diversity did not exist in my…